Proposal: Too similar application names

[Rex Dieter]

Rex Dieter wrote:

> On 06/02/2011 08:54 AM, Vitezslav Humpa wrote:

>> At last Fedora QA meeting John Dulaney had a proposal concerning the
>> issue of similar application names we use around Fedora desktops.
...
>> We were thinking on expanding the release criteria to have one to deal
>> with this issue, but for sure we need to discuss this first.
>>
>> Thus - thoughts? :) (Might be a good idea in having the conversation
>> joined in one list we are all subscribed - perhaps test or desktop?)
> 
> The desktop-entry-spec does specify Name= and GenericName= to help
> distinguish matters,
> http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-
spec-1.0.html#recognized-keys
> 
> It's just that for various reasons, some desktops have chosen not to
> use/implement Name=  in menus.  I've tried to advocate supporting the
> spec for quite awhile...

Here's one really old example,
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=293851

-- Rex